"The intellectual love of God is eternal, and it is the highest good of the mind."

"He who loves God cannot endeavor that God should love him in return."

"I call a thing free which exists and acts by the sole necessity of its own nature; and I call that compelled which is determined by something else to exist and act in a fixed and determinate manner."

"The human mind has a knowledge of God, and knows that it is in God, and is conceived through God."

"The world would be much more happy if men were to govern their passions by reason, than if they were to leave them unbridled."